AC3Machine capable of transcoding to 2-channel AC3?

[NetZwerg]

title says all. Did i miss this and AC3Machine can already do this? The files it creates right now even when downmixing to stereo are always 5.1.

I had to choose between MP2 and AC3 and would rather take AC3.

Followed DOOM9's new ac3 guide to test this...

[DSPguru]

logfile ?

[NetZwerg]

sorry

BeSweet v1.4b3 by DSPguru.
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Using azid.dll v1.8 (b825) by Midas (midas@egon.gyaloglo.hu).
Using AC3enc.dll v0.1 by Gerard Lantau & Dg (http://ffmpeg.org).

Logging start : 06/10/02 , 18:40:37.

BeSweet.exe -core( -input D:\dvdrip\viddata\final fantasy\final AC3 T02 3_1ch 32Kbps DELAY 0ms.ac3 -output d:\dvdrip\viddata\final fantasy\final recoded2.ac3 -logfile BeSweet.log ) -azid( -L -3db -s stereo ) -ac3enc( -b 224 )

[00:00:00:000] +------- BeSweet -----
[00:00:00:000] | Input : D:\dvdrip\viddata\final fantasy\final AC3 T02 3_1ch 32Kbps DELAY 0ms.ac3
[00:00:00:000] | Output: d:\dvdrip\viddata\final fantasy\final recoded2.ac3
[00:00:00:000] | Floating-Point Process: No
[00:00:00:000] +-------- AZID -------
[00:00:00:000] | Output Stereo mode: Stereo
[00:00:00:000] | Total Gain: 0.0dB, Compression: None
[00:00:00:000] | LFE levels: To LR -3.0dB, To LFE 0.0dB
[00:00:00:000] | Center mix level: BSI
[00:00:00:000] | Surround mix level: BSI
[00:00:00:000] | Dialog normalization: No
[00:00:00:000] | Rear channels filtering: No
[00:00:00:000] | Source Sample-Rate: 48.0KHz
[00:00:00:000] +------- AC3ENC -----
[00:00:00:000] | Bitrate method : CBR
[00:00:00:000] | AC3 bitrate : 224
[00:00:00:000] | Channels Mode : 5.1
[00:00:00:000] | Error Protection: Yes
[00:00:00:000] +---------------------
[01:41:38:976] Conversion Completed !
[01:41:38:976] Actual Avg. Bitrate : 224kbps
[00:16:07:000] <-- Transcoding Duration
Logging ends : 06/10/02 , 18:56:44.

[DSPguru]

you're right! AC3 sources were always encoded at 5.1 . should be fixed in v1.4b4.

btw, i advise you to add "-g max" to your -azid( ) section ;).

[NetZwerg]

wow you are fast!

thank you!